It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!
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She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we l... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA How many of us suffered to death? How many of them gained more wealth? How many of u... RIXA WHITE When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, ... ANON. I never named anything I've written before no reason to since it would all have the s... ALLY CONDIE Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake ... RICHARD SIKEN What I want from you is simple. I want today only. If it’s laughter, I want it. If it�... D. LOVE When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens th... MARY OLIVER Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancho... ROMAN PAYNE Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do: Fi... RICHIE NORTON When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a b... MARY OLIVER CHOCOLATE DAY POEM: "Chocolate, dark or light.. Makes me smile bright. Chocolate, whe... VIKRMN Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling MARY OLIVER We met at a cross-roads in life, But we were going different directions. We were part of e... MARGO T. ROSE Lay down Your tired & weary head my friend. We have wept too long Night is fallin... JOSé N. HARRIS 4.38 TONE OF SPEECH Most of the problems of life that be, Are caused by the tone of ... MUNINDRA MISRA You will have memories Because of what we did back then When we were new at this, SAPPHO I AM CONVINCED I am convinced That if all mankind Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY If only one day, their worlds could meet, just halfway. She would outplay, JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of chi... RALPH WALDO EMERSON This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its ... COLLEEN HOOVER We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the... KAMAND KOJOURI It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure n... M.T. ANDERSON I did it the hard way (a poem) ___________________ Many of the big dreams I dreamt,<... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter... PABLO NERUDA ONE BUT MANY One God, many faces. One family, many races. One truth, many paths... SUZY KASSEM I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be a... PAUL CELAN The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all ... W.H. AUDEN There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?"<... RUDYARD KIPLING Well, you would realize… Like i eventually realized… That the good things about her? COLLEEN HOOVER But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these... AMIE KAUFMAN This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God's workings see, We ... MARY RILEY SMITH 7am They said that I’d forget you, and I knew it wasn’t true. But sometimes... COCO J. GINGER How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how t... JULIE METZ In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new. In the summer of... C.A. SCHLEA It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender. “Talk slowl... LAURA KREITZER It’s one thing to have a support system in your life to cheer you on during the instances whe... ALICIA COOK Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him,... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Once lively peonies now wind-weary, and ragged at the edges, hang their heavy crown... KRISTEN HENDERSON Some day we will try To do as many things as are possible And perhaps we shall succeed at ... JOHN ASHBERY He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never change... MARTHA MEDEIROS I did it the hard way ( a poem) _________________________ Many of the big dreams I dreamt,... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It’s about letting yourself feel, but not wallow; it’s about leaning into love, not ... SHEILA BURKE It’s about letting yourself feel, but not wallow; it’s about leaning into love, not ... SHEILA M. BURKE Look for it, and it can’t be seen. Listen for it, and it can’t be heard. Grasp for it,... LAO TZU My heart in the East But the rest of me far in the West— How can I savor this life, ev... YEHUDA HALEVI You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story ... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON I don’t have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love. It was that one awkward mov... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: PABLO NERUDA If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.�... GAYLE FORMAN SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it. We had found it. But n... MARY E. PEARSON The world is thinning and the earth...it's still spinning my world is thinning ... SANOBER KHAN Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. ... REBECCA WADLINGER I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.” He ... DIANA GABALDON Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet isn’t felt, an always disconten... LUíS DE CAMõES my dear all the way you drove me . thought it was me . examples are too many .which one i... LITYMUNSHI I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws i... STASIA WARD KEHOE Radiant Day is slowly fading; and the evening calm and still. Gazing through the oak and willo... SARA LOUSISA OBERHOLTZER One of the greatest gifts That life can give to anyone Is the very special love that families... CRAIG S. TUNKS The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery. “What is it?” she ... DEREK LANDY There was something wrong with me. The human body doesn’t want to get hurt. We’re pro... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Never stop and never sit! Work hard and stay fit! Success will come one day, To those... AVIJEET DAS A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies a... JACK GILBERT This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar ... ANNA AKHMATOVA If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed and leave the yellow bark dust on y... MICHAEL ONDAATJE A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by t... JOSHUA HARRIS Of all things, only we have power to choose that we should die; nothing else is free in ... WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evenin... JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE Everywhere, Everywhere" amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defen... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from a... KAMAND KOJOURI Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped! You were h... HERMANN HESSE O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then wha... KAMAND KOJOURI My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is dar... ALFRED TENNYSON The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed... Like thief in ... TOBA BETA The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice; When will you free yourself from cowardice?<... FARID UD-DIN ATTAR I entered the fire and could have quit- Could have turned and walked away, Weeping each st... ADAM SCOTT CAMPBELL The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, thou... MARY OLIVER If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves ... MEHEK BASSI Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life. Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul. SAUMYA MOHANTY Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance... ROMAN PAYNE It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine if my affections do not become Love? Very mu... PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Die slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day,... PABLO NERUDA Leisure What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and star... W.H. DAVIES Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication t... KAMAND KOJOURI
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It's ridiculous. He's n... ROMAN REIGNS When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi... ROMAN REIGNS It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of ... ROMAN REIGNS After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first... ROMAN ROMANENKO You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and... ROMAN POLANSKI A lot of people tune in to 'Monday Night Raw,' and they can hear these boos or these mixed r... ROMAN REIGNS If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit... ROMAN POLANSKI Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that... ROMAN POLANSKI Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ROMAN GARY I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur... ROMAN JAKOBSON When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ... ROMAN COPPOLA As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o... ROMAN REIGNS Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ROMAN POLANSKI I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories... ROMAN COPPOLA Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t... ROMAN JAKOBSON It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin... ROMAN JAKOBSON To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o... ANNE ROMAN Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In... ANNE ROMAN When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th... ANNE ROMAN Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff. ANNE ROMAN We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e... ANNE ROMAN If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t... ANNE ROMAN You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ... ROMAN REIGNS Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything... ROMAN REIGNS Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b... NANCY ROMAN In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec... ROMAN JAKOBSON The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel... ROMAN COPPOLA I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese... ROMAN COPPOLA Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi... ROMAN JAKOBSON I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for... ROMAN REIGNS Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo... ROMAN COPPOLA Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type. ROMAN REIGNS After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely differ... ROMAN ABRAMOVICH